Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph * Sunday Times * One of the most enjoyable, funny and moving reads of this year. A rare tragicomedy that's both genuinely tragic and genuinely comic * Guardian * Darkly comic, dazzles, every line drips ideas for fun. Unputdownably funny, captivating. A masterpiece * Metro * Ambitious, wise, funny, fiercely intelligent. The beauty of this cynical, hopeful, beautifully written book is that it builds a detailed world to explore life, the universe and everything * Sunday Express * Hilarious, heartbreaking, totally engrossing. A triumph * Daily Mail * Noisy, hilarious, tragic, endlessly inventive, plain brilliant. A carnival of a novel * The Times * Novels rarely come as funny and as moving as this utterly brilliant exploration of teenhood and the anticlimax of becoming an adult . . . Skippy Dies is intuitive, truthful and one of the finest comic novels written anywhere. Dies? Never! Skippy lives * Irish Times * I loved Skippy Dies . . . three novels fused into one ignited tragicomic tour de force * Times Literary Supplement * Skippy Dies is one great high-octane fizz bang of a book * Irish Times * Extravagantly entertaining * New York Times Book Review *
